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teTeX

teTeX was obtained from CTAN archive ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/. 
# cd /software/incoming/tex/teTeX
# mkdir binaries base doc fonts
# ftp ftp.cdrom.com
ftp> cd /pub/comp/tex/teTeX/distrib
ftp> bin
ftp> dir binaries
ftp> prompt
ftp> mget install.sh base doc fonts binaries/solaris.tar.gz
ftp> quit
You should look at the output of the "dir binaries" command and substitute the appropriate file(s) in place of "solaris.tar.gz". When you are done with the installation (below), you may go back and delete the contents of /usr/local/temp. 
#sh
#./install.sh
and answer questions. It was found that being user chandra and making the directory /usr/local/teTeX where the eventual software was installed under the user made the installation go smoothly. Any other fonts, macros, style files that are used by the physics users are ftped and placed in the /usr/local/teTeX directory tree. The format files from other tex based distributions need to go in /usr/local/teTeX/web2c directory. We do the master installation on neptune and quark and use rdist to distribute this information automatically to all other areas.

Periodically we will need to add new printers to the teTeX package so that dvips -Pprinter command recognizes them. Since we keep the master distribution on quark and neptune, you need to do this on those two machines.  The command to do this is texconfig. There is a bug in the current version of teTeX which refuses to run the texconfig command in an xterm.  To get around this problem, open a dtterm on an x-terminal or get to qvtterm on your pc and telnet to quark and login as root directly. You then can cd /usr/local/teTeX/bin/alpha* and run texconfig. The option to choose is configure dvips and then add a printer. You will need to specify the mode of the printer which is usually ljfour or ljfive and then the command to print to the printer (lpr -Pprinter). You need to do the same to get the teTeX to rebuild the ls-R database using the hash menu option.

Currently teTeX system only scans directories that were available when it was built. So add new packages to be recognized by latex, you need to add them to /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/misc directory. After adding the files you need to do the convoluted texhash method described above.